Bob Collins
What’s your opinion of a full-body scan prior to boarding an airline flight?
MPR News Reflections and observations on the news
By Bob Collins
Bob Collins retired from Minnesota Public Radio in 2019 after 12 years of writing NewsCut and pointing out to complainants that posts weren’t news stories. A son of Massachusetts, he was a news editor 1992-1998, created the MPR News regional website in 1999, invented the popular Select A Candidate, started several blogs, and every day lamented that his Minnesota Fantasy Legislature project never caught on.
Illinois politics
Sometimes relying on private industry isn’t a good idea, seeking health care in Mexico, Flight 401’s 37th anniversary, deporting the Hmong, and the environmental damage of going green.
Heightened security un-heightened
We do not seem to have a heightened sense of fear about terrorism. We have a heightened sense of anger at the reaction of Homeland Security forces.
Increased security may not actually increase security, Hmong are rousted back to Laos, when do you care about the health care debate, the lure of ice fishing, and the year in fact-checking.
Mobile phones are — again — the only way news of renewed violence is getting out of Iran.